In natural language and physical science, a physical object or material object (or simply an object or body) is a contiguous collection of matter, within...

Section, §Types of Materialist Theory Markosian 2009, pp. 486–487, Physical Object Kim 2006, § 1. Introduction Addis 2013, pp. 49–50 Searle 2004, p. 183...

interaction with physical world objects but also to interaction with virtual (computing environment) objects. A smart physical object may be created either...

constructs or language (idealism and nominalism). Objects can range from the concrete: such as physical objects usually studied in applied mathematics, to the...

digital object memory (DOMe) is a digital storage space intended to keep permanently all related information about a concrete physical object instance...

objective Object (grammar), a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object 3D model, a representation of a physical object Object (computer...

to extend the Internet to the physical world by attaching tags with URLs to tangible objects or locations. These object tags can then be read by a wireless...

A physical system is a collection of physical objects under study. The collection differs from a set: all the objects must coexist and have some physical...

Look up object lesson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An object lesson is a teaching method that consists of using a physical object or visual aid...

a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from Ancient Greek:...

The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy. A subject is a being that exercises agency, undergoes conscious experiences,...

design by giving physical forms to digital information, thus taking advantage of the human ability to grasp and manipulate physical objects and materials...

as the immediate objects of perception. In cases of illusion or hallucination, the object has qualities that no public physical object in that situation...

result which guides reaction, or an end, which is an object, either a physical object or an abstract object, that has intrinsic value. Goal-setting theory was...

childhood development, the term transitional object is normally used. It is something, usually a physical object, which takes the place of the mother-child...

Physical strength is the measure of an individual's exertion of force on physical objects. Increasing physical strength is the goal of strength training...

value of things allowing completely incommensurate objects to be compared (see the section on 'Physicality' below). The state (polity) as both concept and...

is the outermost or uppermost layer of a physical object or space. It is the portion or region of the object that can first be perceived by an observer...

function [citation needed]), or PUF, is a physical object whose operation cannot be reproduced ("cloned") in physical way (by making another system using the...

Damage is any change in a thing, often a physical object, that degrades it away from its initial state. It can broadly be defined as "changes introduced...

An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists...

relationship with other, spacetime coordinates, symbolic or alpha-numeric, a physical object, or an energy projection. In some cases, methods are used that intentionally...

is contrasted with phenomenalism, which reduces mental states and physical objects to complexes of sensations, and with psychologism, which treats logical...

elementary charge e. Physical constants can take many dimensional forms: the speed of light signifies a maximum speed for any object and its dimension is...

double-nail illusion is a multi-modal illusion in which two similar physical objects, that are located the one behind the other in depth, do not appear...

and logic. These include questions about whether only physical objects are real (e.g., physicalism), whether reality is fundamentally immaterial (e.g.,...

string theory and related theories (such as supergravity), a brane is a physical object that generalizes the notion of a zero-dimensional point particle, a...

reality, in space and time. Its ontological status is that it is a physical object. The art is concretely realized but may be abstract in nature. For...

each different commodity) that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time. The EPC structure is defined in...

an aware observer. It is the subjective counterpart of the space of physical objects. There is a long history in philosophy, and later psychology of writings...